In January 2011, researchers from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif. tested a future aircraft concept model. The model, called AMELIA (Advanced Model for Extreme Lift and Improved Aeroacoustics), has a 10-foot wing span and is 1/13th scale. It was tested in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex. AMELIA was designed as a 100-passenger regional cruise efficient, short takeoff and landing airliner. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2012/iotw/cal_poly_amelia_model.html
This mid-infrared image of the W3A star cluster in the inset was captured by the FORCAST camera on the SOFIA flying observatory in 2011. It is overlaid on a near-infrared image of the W3 star-forming region from the Spitzer space telescope. The SOFIA image scale is 150 x 100 arcseconds, and the red, green and blue colors represent 37, 20 and 7 μm. The red, green and blue colors in the background image from Spitzer represent 7.9, 4.5, 3.6 μm. SOFIA image: NASA / DLR / USRA / DSI / FORCAST team...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2012/iotw/SOFIA_W3_star_forming_perseus.html
NASA's Ames Research Center is located at Moffett Field, in California’s Silicon Valley. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics selected Ames to be its second aeronautical research laboratory on Dec. 20, 1939. Ames became part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) when that agency was formed in 1958. This shot shows NASA Ames' Building 17, which houses the NASA Lunar Science Institute with Hangar One in background at sunrise on Dec. 2, 2011. Photo Credit: NASA...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2011/iotw/ames_lawn_hangar_one.html
Captain Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III visited the Virtual Motion Simulator at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field Calif. recently. Sully is best known for landing U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 people on the aircraft. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Eric James
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2011/iotw/sully_visits_ames.html
Neil deGrasse Tyson recently attended the 1,000 days since launch party for Kepler. Tyson is a well known astrophysicist and science communicator. This year it was announced that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan's "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" TV series. The entire Kepler team was thrilled that Tyson was able to celebrate this event with them. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2011/iotw/neil_deGrasse_tyson_visit.html
In 2003, NASA Ames Research Center performed an experiment with fruit flies. The experiment eventually flew on the space station as part of the space station biological research program. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2011/iotw/fruit_fly_dish.html
NAS's hyperwall-2 won the HPCwire Reader's Choice Award for best visualization system here at SC11. The award was presented in the NASA booth at the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle, Wash. Tim Sandstrom accepted the award. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Nick Bonifas
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2011/iotw/HPC_award_ratio.html
NASA Ames recently welcomed the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) with tours of research facilities and presentations of present and future NASA missions. Photo Credit NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2011/iotw/sacnas.html
Aerial view of the Kepler Mission-themed corn maze at the Dell’Osso Family Farm in Lathrop, Calif. The maze is one of seven "Space Farms" around the country that honor NASA and the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight. The Kepler maze is open through Oct. 31, 2011. For more information and directions, visit the Dell'Osso Family Farm website. More aerial photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jetforme/sets/72157627933831442. Image credit: Roderick (Rick) Mann
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2011/iotw/Kepler_corn_maze.html
Hangar N211 at NASA Ames was transformed into the 'North Pole' for the annual Cops Care Cancer Foundation Christmas Fantasy Flight on Dec. 11, 2010. The annual event is for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses at local hospitals. Highlighting the event was the arrival of Santa in a police helicopter, bearing gifts for each child and their siblings. Other activities included a 'bubble zone', jumper houses, face painting, carnival games and special access to police and fire...
Topic: What -- Cancer
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/506546main_ACD10-0237-071_full.jpg
SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, took off into the heavens for its first science flight earlier this week. Photo Credit: NASA / Tom Tschida Read more about the SOFIA mission
Topic: What -- SOFIA
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/503318main_%204_3_ratio_sofia_full.jpg
Santa Clara University students are running mission operations for Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses (O/OREOS) nanosatellite for a year and then for several more years for educational and engineering experiments. Pictured here are Michael Neumann (left) and Anthony Young. Photo credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Eric James
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/502391main_ACD10-0220-004_full.jpg
Wendy Dolci holds up two mascots from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory during the KAO time capsule opening ceremony on Nov. 10, 2010. The kiwi and koala were given by friends in New Zealand and Australia to the KAO crew members. It's estimated that the koala mascot flew four million miles on the KAO. Photo credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Eric James
Topics: Where -- New Zealand, Where -- Australia, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/501183main_ACD10-0215-013_full.jpg
From left, Charlie Friedericks and Giovanni Manelli, with the NASA's Ames Research Center inspect the Ames-managed O/OREOS nano satellite at Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska, Oct. 17, 2010, in advance of the satellite's planned launch into orbit. Image credit: U.S. Air Force/Lou Hernandez
Topics: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Alaska
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/499020main_101017-F-2428H-002_full.jpg
Ames hosted a pumpkin carving contest on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. This Giants fan expressed their enthusiasm for the World Series with a creative pumpkin carving. The San Francisco Giants won the world series on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/495537main_ACD10-0209-014_full.jpg
Trajectory-Based Automation System (TBAS) simulation in the Crew-Vehicle Systems Research Facility's (CVSRF) Boeing 747-400 simulator with John Walker and Joe Walton of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/493620main_tbas_full.jpg
The anniversary of the Oakland fire storm was this week. As a precursor to Ikhana, a C-130 flight was used by firefighters to ''see'' through the smoke and better direct their efforts. This image calls out landmarks within the fire region. Image specifics are as follows. This data was acquired by the NASA C-130B Earth Resources Survey aircraft flying at 6,000 ft. mean sea level at 10:26 a. m. on October 21, 1991. The sensor used was the NS001 Thermatic Mapper Simulator, with a ground resolution...
Topic: What -- Earth
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/491424main_oakland_fire_full.jpg
Firefighters and first-responders from NASA's Ames Research Center's fire department honed their skills during training sessions at the Moffett Federal Airfield. For more information, read the media advisory about the event at: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/M10-85.html Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Eric James
Topics: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Moffett Federal Airfield
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/488664main_firefighters_full.jpg
Aztec dancers performed at NASA Ames Research Center on Oct. 6, 2010. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/487085main_aztec_dancers_full.jpg
NASA's Ames Research Center hosted Observe the Moon night on Saturday Sept. 18, 2010. This event was sponsored by the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI). Nearly 400 similar International Observe the Moon Night events were held in more than 40 countries around the world on Sept. 18. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Topics: What -- Moon, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/484185main_observe_moon_night_full.jpg
Clarence ''Sy'' Syverston died the evening of Sept. 13, 2010 at the age of 84. He was director of NASA Ames Research Center from 1977 to 1984. Read Ames Research Center Director S. Pete Worden's statement on the passing of Clarence ''Sy'' Syverston. Photo Credit: NASA
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/482556main_syverston_full.jpg
A real NASA rover was available for participants to operate at the Chabot Space and Science Center at the NASA science and culture festival on Sept. 5, 2010. ''You Just Have to Believe'' was the theme of NASA's science and culture festival, featuring a holographic presentation of NASA astronaut Leland Melvin and hip hop artist MOS Def rapping about mathematics and science. Students were invited to ''believe in themselves and take on new challenges'' by participating in NASA's space program....
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/480773main_chabot_rover_full.jpg
Viking 1 images composite of Mars by USGS University of Arizona. The Viking 1 Mission was flown in June of 1976. Photo Credit: NASA
Topics: What -- Viking, What -- Mars, Where -- Arizona
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/479783main_viking_ratio_full.jpg
The Vertical Motion Simulator VMS is celebrating its 30th birthday. The VMS has been used for research in space vehicles, rotorcraft, tilt rotors, six fixed-wing aircraft for military and commercial applications, trains, ground vehicles and airships. Engineers customize the facility to simulate any aerospace vehicle, whether existing or in the design stage. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center ARC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/0100-001.html
Testing advanced designs for high-speed aircraft in 1948, an engineer makes final calibrations to a model mounted in the 6 x 6 Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California. NACA, NASA's predecessor organization the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, was established in March 1913 by Congress to ''supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solutions.'' The Ames Aeronautical...
Topics: Where -- Ames Research Center ARC, Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/testing_future.html
In this photo dated June 6, 1950 a NACA photographer captured the balance house control panel for the 40 x 80 wind tunnel. Photo Credit: NACA
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/control_panel_40_x_80_windtunnel.html
Astronaut Yvonne Cagle visited the newly renovated Ames Exploration Encounter AEE to inspire the next generation on July 26, 2010, which was Ames kick-off event for Summer of Innovation. The children who attended were very enthusiastic about talking to an astronaut and Cagle was very engaging with the kids. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center ARC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/cagle_aee.html
It all started on May 25, 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. Coming just three weeks after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space, Kennedy's bold challenge set the nation on a journey unlike any before in human history. Eight years of hard work by thousands of Americans came to fruition on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped out of the lunar module and took...
Topics: Who -- Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Who -- Neil A. Armstrong, What -- Moon, What -- Mercury, What --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/470923main_69-HC-898[1]_full.jpg
Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., began his duties as the twelfth Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on July 17, 2009. This image was taken on July 9, 1993 when Bolden was at Ames using the Vertical Motion simulator as part of his astronaut training. Photo Credit: NASA / Dominic Hart
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/bolden_astronaut.html
Developed at NASA Ames Research Center in the 1980s, the AX-5 high pressure, zero prebreathe hard suit was developed. It achieved mobility through a constant volume, using a hard metal / composite rigid exoskeleton design. Photo Credit: NASA
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center ARC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/ax_5_astronaut.html
Alan B Shepard stands with an American flag on the lunar surface. Happy Fourth of July from NASA Ames Research Center. Photo Credit: NASA / Apollo 14
Topics: What -- Apollo 14, Where -- Ames Research Center ARC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/shepard_ratio.html
These are the smiling faces of the interns at NASA's Ames Research Center this summer. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/464902main_Summer%202010%20Higher%20Education%20Cohort_full.jpg
NASA's Ames Research Center employees formed a ''70'' in commemoration of the center's platinum anniversary. Photo credit: Eric James / NASA
Topic: Ames Research Center (ARC)
On Dec. 12, 2009, NASA Ames Research Center's Hangar N211 was transformed into the 'North Pole' for the annual Cops Care Cancer Foundation Christmas Fantasy Flight for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
Topics: cancer, Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
NASA's Ames Research Center employees formed a ''70'' in commemoration of the center's platinum anniversary. Photo credit: Eric James / NASA
Topic: Ames Research Center (ARC)
An F/A-18 mission support aircraft shadows NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP during a functional check flight in restricted airspace near Edwards Air Force Base and the Dryden Flight Research Center on Dec. 9, 2009. The flight included an evaluation of the aircraft's systems, including engines, flight controls and communication. Credit: NASA / Jim Ross
Topics: Edwards Air Force Base, Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
Happy Holidays from NASA's Ames Research Center. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Pioneer 10 artwork
Topic: What -- Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10 artwork
Topic: What -- Pioneer 10
Photograph (illustration by) JSC Internation Space Station in Phase 1 complete assembly on Orbit with Shuttle docked (JSC ref. No. S93-046073)
Topic: Where -- Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Photograph (illustration by) JSC Internation Space Station in Phase 1 complete assembly on Orbit with Shuttle docked (JSC ref. No.Ref. S93-046076
Topic: Where -- Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Photograph (illustration by) JSC Internation Space Station in Phase 1 complete assembly on Orbit with Shuttle Docked (JSC ref. No. S93-046072
Topic: Where -- Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Photograph (illustration by) JSC Internation Space Station in Phase 1 complete assembly on Orbit (JSC ref: S93-48395) (JSC ref: No. S93-48395
Topic: Where -- Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Date: 1980 Photographer: Boeing Boeing model 737 TCV research cockpit
AX-5 Space Suit (Hardsuit) attached to donning stand: This demonstration of new sizing techniques shows the suit adjusted to accommodate the Astronaut's small size. The hardsuit while maintaining mobility offers the astronaut greater protection from debris, micrometerorite penetration, radiation and thermal loads during EVA operations. Developed by NASA Ames. Designer/engineer Hubert "Vic" Vykukal
Artist: W.S. Phillips Aeronautics Art: X-15 Hypersonic Final (HQ ref: 84-HC-281 & 84-H-285)
Date: 1980 Photographer: Boeing Boeing model 747 flight deck (photo courtesy: National Geographic)
Date: 1980 Photographer: Langley Res. Ctr. Boeing model 737 (TCV) Terminally configured vehicle cut away (ref: L80-8015)
Date: 1980's Photographer: Boeing DeHavilland QSRA (Quite Short Haul Research Aircraft) cockpit layout drawing
Photograph by JPL Voyager 1 close up image of Jupiter moon Io JPL ref. No. P-21277
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Jupiter, What -- Moon, What -- Io, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Photograph by JPL Voyager 1's look at Jupiter's moon Io JPL ref No. P-21457
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Moon, What -- Io, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Photograph by JPL Voyager 1 view Io in its orbit around Jupiter
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Io, What -- Jupiter, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Photograph by JPL Voyager 1 catches volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io JPL ref No. P-21334
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Moon, What -- Io, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Photograph by JPL As Voyager 1 approches Jupiter three of its moons can be seen JPL ref. No. C-206
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Jupiter, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Photographer: Voyager 1 spacecraft Jupiter moon Ganymede
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Jupiter, What -- Moon, What -- Ganymede
Photographer: Voyager 1 spacecraft Jupiter moon Ganymede
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Jupiter, What -- Moon, What -- Ganymede
Photograph by JPL Voyager 1 catches volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io JPL - no available
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Moon, What -- Io, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Graphic Art Venus - Day - Night drawing showing solar wind, bow shock, magnetosheath, clouds and streamers Pioneer Venus SP-461 fig 6-28 Interaction of the solar wind with the atmosphere of Venus as termined from Pioner Venus experiments and observations
Topics: What -- Venus, What -- Pioneer Venus
Ames Pilot George Cooper and
Date: 1973 Photographer: Langley Res. Ctr. Boeing model 737 (TCV) Terminally configured vehicle on ramp at Langley center (ref: L73-6283)
Composite Pioneer 10 imagery Excitement rose as the PICS displayed images of Jupiter of ever-increasing size as Pioneer 10 plunged at high speed toward its closest approach to the planet. The most dramatic moment was perhaps after closest approach and after the spacecraft has been hidden behind Jupiter. PICS (Pioneer Image Converter System) began to show a few spots on the screens, which gradually built up into a very distorted crescent-shaped Jupiter. "Sunrise on Jupiter," exclaimed...
Topics: What -- Pioneer 10, What -- Jupiter
Northrop N9M-2 airplane; 3/4 rear view. Detail of rear boom 40x80' wind tunnel mounting of Northrop.
Ames Soiree: R.T. Jones explains his violin making hobby
Schliern photo of XF4D-2 model in 6x6 W.T.
Wind tunnel investigation of .07 scale model of the Douglas XF4D-2 Airplane.
Topic: Where -- Douglas
Wind tunnel investigation of the MX-1554 Airplane.
7- by 10- foot wind tunnel investigation of XS-3 MX-656 research airplanes. 3/4 Front view of X S-3.
Investigation at large scale of the low -speed rolling oscillations of a model of the MX-656 airplane.
Investigation at large scale of the low -speed rolling oscillations of a model of the MX-656 airplane. 3/4 Front view of blunt nose configuration in 12' W.T.
Investigation at large scale of the low -speed rolling oscillations of a model of the MX-656 airplanes.
Northrop N9M-2 airplane; 3/4 front view from below.
Equipment: JB-1 for 2x2 instrumentation. Front inside.
Curtis XF15C-1 model; 0.14 scale. View of AAL horizontal tail.
Equipment: JB-1 for 2x2 instrumentation. Front outside
